Firefox-109 does not play all videos
 

I am running the official Firefox-109.0 Binary. It has audio video on Youtube nicely (improved from ff99) but not all websites work any longer. Firefox-99 official Binary seems to work with all websites.

QUESTION: What changed in 109 that prevents these awful porn sites from displaying their ads and content in video streams?

The "player" on these look like youtube's but the format does this: HD, 720p, 230p, "", then after deleting all entries displays "Source Error". ff99 works ff109 does not.

I'm unsure if "the web sites" are out of date or I am? Is some firefox security improvement blocking (some ad engine) in these websites?

HISTORY:

SDL-1.2.0 compiles and works "ok" with ffmpeg-2.8

I FORGOT i found ./configure optionions are mutually exclusive - at first anything > SDL-1.2.0 built "nullish libs" seen by objdump: but given exclusive options it worked.

SDL2-2.24.0 with ffmpeg-5.1 compiled and installed: IDK if Firefox-99 or Firefox-109 use these as libs or otherwise

I DO HAVE: ICU-72.1, libevent-2.1.12, libvpx-1.12.0 or higher and many many other built pre-requirements (about all other) (well not doxygen junk), ciaro, svg, gtk+-3.24.34, gtk-4.6.7, some engines and icons enough to keep firefox from drag-and-crash dialogs. pulseaudio-16.0 works: alsa alone DOES NOT (pulse is required - alsa alone is no longer supported).

libwebp-1.3.0 i did not build. ? google. i'd be running google if they didn't block my server from downloading source i think. "replacement for JPEG GIF" (too many of those already - more likely obstruction for other platforms is real goal)

Node.js i did not build, but i think it's in ff and anyhow: once again google blocks my server from downloading it. nss-3.87 i didn't build i think ff-109 has it built-in, idk. there is some discussion forum on google about ipv6 and being blocked from download i've seen.

libnotify i don't have. My fav is Motif, there is nothing to notify don't try! (standardized window notifications is all motif can do, and it does them btw)

THAT'S ALL :) firefox doesn't share all the requirements online or in their source README that i can find (if they even know themselves?).

I don't know if the websites are too old or there is some lib that is kicking this "Source Error". I have no error message either. It says it's missing a decoder but ... that says nothing really. I really doubt it is ffmpeg-5.1 versus ffmpeg-5.1.2 that is my problem because THESE ARE OLD WEBSITES (i don't need a new HVEC encoding format to display an older website probably - so i don't blame ffmpeg?)

-------------------------------------

OFF TOPIC: Firefox-44 was THE LAST firefox where you could actually download source and build. (all newer REQUIRES you run suspicious 32bit binaries and allow who knows who root access to "download anything cargo" with root access. no way never. (501 usa gov funding award related). if the official bins don't work they are responsible ... so it's on them and they intentionally put themselves there. my build shows VIRTENV doesn't install in HOME: it's broken (even if i uninstall system wide py - which is awful). python uses root authority and builds while installing - it's a root faker. these things all "protect their jobs" i am sure. but they can have it. if i can't see all of the source upfront upon download: then any problem i have is their fault and i'll make sure they pay for it.

thanks for your patience :)

My first thought was: the "during video / interruption ad engines" that worked in ff99 don't work in ff109 because they were breaking a SECURITY feature. Which is why Youtube still works with 109 (even better as I said). but IDK.

I am doubling down here: if ff99 ff109 both work on Youtube on same boot run, then ff109 shouldn't need a "lib depends forced upgrades" to view OLDER websites that ff99 works (ok) with? so i consider it a wtf.

...

I'm experiencing a similar, but not identical issue.

First, my issue comes ONLY when I'm using siduction and it appears to be a regression.
Second, the problem takes place with every Web browser I've used recently with siduction.
Third, the issue for me is that Web pages containing either audio or video do not function.
When I try YouTube, for instance, I see a spinning indicator and the site appears, but nothing operates, though the site is definitely contacted and I CAN see the initial image. When it's audio, the site also appears but there is no sound.

If I reboot to another distribution on the very same hardware, for instance, openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, EndeavourOS, or antiX, each of these is able to use any of their Web browsers and they work fine. So for me this is not isolated to just Firefox, instead it's isolated to a distribution rather than a specific browser; it's probably a different issue, but it's similar in that functionality is affected on this one distribution. Is it because a specific module or group of modules is missing on this distribution or is it something entirely different - in other words, what causes audio and video not to work?

I did find another peculiarity: IF I installed smtube and copied a YouTube URL into this command line tool, THEN it was able to properly view video content, very odd indeed.

Moin,

I'm not sure if it helps, but when building strictly everything from the BLFS-Book and not using any crap from somewhere else, i did not experience any major problems on replaying media with Firefox - but seems, it needs ffmpeg as kind of a "helper".

cheers,
WK